Halter



7 UNITED" STATES PATENT Ormel-3.

noMnR F. BUTTON, or Ennis, iuorrrnrm.A

HALTER.

SPECIFICATION forming pan; of Letters :Patent No. 485,278, dated November`1",'19a

` Application filed March 3l, 1890. Serial No. 346,046. (No model.) i I To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HOMER F, HUrrcN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Ennis, in the county of Madison and State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Halter, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to harnesses, and more especially to that portion thereof known as halters.

The object of the present invention is to provide a halter which may be made of a single piece of rope and a number of light metallic socket-pieces, whereby the cost of its manufacture will be but little, and still it will be capable of a considerable degree of adjusti ment to adapt it in size to the heads of different animals. This object I accomplish by my improved halter hereinafter more fully described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my improved halter inits preferred form. Fig. 2 is a similar view with the snap-hook omitted. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the plain socket-pieces. Fig. 4. is a section of the attaching socket-piece.

Heretofore rope halters have been made of a number of pieces of rope disposed in various ways around the head of the animal upon which the halter was used, the pieces being connected to each other at points where necessary by various means; but I am not aware that a halter constructed of a single piece of rope has been passed through a number of socket-pieces nearly all of which are of the same size and shape and nearly all of which are provided with means for adjusting the rope therein, which forms the subject-matter of the present invention. It will be obvious that it is unnecessary in making a halter lof this improved construction to use socketpieces of various sizes and shapes, which of course are cast at a considerable expense. All of the socket-pieces in my improved halter are made from the same mold, except two, and one of these two is a simple eye-socket piece, while the other is an improved snaphook socket-piece, forming a portion of the completed halter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, the letter R designates apiece of rope which may be of any preferred size and material sides of the nose, the neck, and beneath the lower jaw and clamped together at such points to form the nose-band, cheek-pieces, headstall, and throat-straps of the halter, the exact location of the various sockets being readily noted from the description and drawings.

The letter S designates socket-pieces, preferably of metal, each of which is constructed in the following manner: The body of the socket-piece has two apertures passing longitudinally through it, which apertures converge toward the smaller end of the body and intersecting or meeting at points on both and open outwardly therefrom in a single oval opening. Between the separated ends of these apertures at the larger end of the body, is a screw-threaded hole, in which is seated a screw U, whose tip extends into the V-shaped opening between the inner sides of the two ropes where they approach each other at the smaller end of the body. The screw has a squared head H, adapted to be turned by means hereinafter set forth. The rope is passed through each of the apertures and adjusted therein to the proper degree, after which the screw is seated in place and holds both ropes passing through the socketpiece in their proper adjusted positions.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated what I call the attaching socket-piece. This socket-piece is precisely the same as the one j ust described, except that instead of the screw U, I use a screw-eye I, with which may be engaged a snap-hook Z upon the end of a leading-ropeY and is located on the intersecting rope at the point where the nose-band and throat-pieces connect at the bottom. The eye-socket piece S' is simply a tubular socket-piece, through which the rope passes, having a screw-eye I seated in one of its sides and retaining the socket-piece in position upon the rope, and is designed to be located on the doubled end of the headstall, for the purpose noted.

In Fig. l I have shown my preferred arrangement of parts. In this gure the rope is led from the socket-piece numbered 1 through the eye socket piece S', thence through the socket-pieces at points numbered 2 3 4. 5 6 '7 and 8 9 l0 ll and to the point l2 in the socket-piece S, which is at the opposite side of the nose from the socket-piece S,

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upper end around th'eneckiothe horsef-They sockets having the ordinary screws are 1ocated at all the intersecting points on thehaiand eye sockets are located, as already specied. iltfwili hel understood that when tit is desired to detach a halter of this form froin the horses head all that `^isnecessaryis'tv disengage the snap-hook from the eye I of the-socketpiece Sgwhen: the portion #of the halt er Yencifrci-in g the f neck will rbe ffree-Lrand the' whole haiter -can .-f'be passed fdownwandvly ment Lof parts, the Ihalten-las'construeteduaccording o-ths=1arrangement; ihaviingenesnap- I i f hook, but being intended for permanentiat sometimes desirable. 'Inifthis igureztherepe isled from the'` vsocket-:piece numbered 1 through 4the vsocket-piece Vnumbered 2 Vi-and thence directly over' fthe head'fof the lhor-sete the fsocket-piece' Inlinher'ed 3' on Flthelfvother sideof the horse, (insteadioffn'eturningbelow the vhead1,as fin Fig, 1,') thence doW-nwa'rdlyto `the point 4, thence :tof the point vinfthesockter, except at the points Where the attachingA et-piecefrom which it started, andthence through the points 6, V7, 8', 9, 10, -and 11, and finally to the point 12, which occupies the same position as the point 12 in Fig. 1. The leading-strap Y and snap-hook Z are conv nectedto,. thescrcw-eye I in this instance be- 'l'ow the fan=ima1schin-, exactly as in the other case.

@Having thus described my invention, what lciaixnis- The improved halter herein described,

coinprisinigv aisingle ipiecefof rope forming the nosefband, cheek-pieces, headstall, and throat- "strap, the-nose-band=^having socket-pieces at each side, with converging apertures therethrough, and aebinfdimgscnemsa similar socket- `r}: 1iece',wi.th anjeyefconnectin gfthefn'osefband l'and the :threatspiece t :at @che i ihotteml I'andl a sixmian'loiece :atl` theftop, wthoutth eleye, conl meeting, thcmhe'adstlalL-xandfthe: latter `nonnectedatfonas'ide by a-:socketapiece'yvith van eye-Rand` asegmentai yapenturan amen-verging f secketpiccewith ai screwsat the opposite siid e, #and a socket snap-hook on the 'doubled end :of: the-headsta11,;suhstan tia11y-'as'described.

i :In btestimonytirat I i cla-imthe-foregoingas .t myown I fhavefheretoiafxednnysignaturein i the presence roffrire Witnesses.

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